Stephen moore



STEPHEN MOORE, OF SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS,- ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HOMERROGERS, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 92,338, lated July G, i869.

PIPE-LEM: STO'PPER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same ".'To all persons to whom these presents 'may come:

le it known that I, STEPHEN MOORE, of Sudbury, of the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachuvsetts, have invented a new and useful Pipe-Leak Stopper; and do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following speciiication, amlrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of.whicl1- Figure l is a top view, Figure 2, a side elevation, Figure 3, a transverse section, and Figure 4, an end view of it, as applied to a pipe. The purpose of the invention is to stop, in a gas, water, or steam-pipe, a leak.

In the drawings- A denotes what I term the saddle; Il B, the clamps; and C, the pipe, to which they are applied. ZI) is a strip of India rubber, or other proper material, laid ou the crack or opening o, in the pipe, and interposed between it and the saddle.

The said saddle is composed not only ofthe segment a of a tube, but of two angular or crowned ilanges, b b', c c', disposed on the flanks thereof'.

-closely down upon the packing of India rubber, so as to close the crack or opening o in tbe pipe.

I claim the leak-stopper, substantially as described, that is, as composed of the tubular segment, the two flanges or pairs of inclined planes, and the clamps, arranged in'manner and lso as to operate together, as

and for the purpose as specified.

STEPHEN MOORE.

Witnesses It. H. EDDY, SAMUEL N. PIPER. 

